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The direct ancestor of Bookmans were several fonts from around 1869 named "Old Style Antique" intended as a bold complement to the original Old Style face. "Antique" was a common name given to bolder typefaces of the time, now often called slab serifs , and identifies the aim of creating a complementary bolder design on the oldstyle model for ...
Miller & Richard's original specimen for their Old Style fonts, in a mock-traditional style with the long s and archaic ligatures. [1]Old Style, later referred to as modernised old style, was the name given to a series of serif typefaces cut from the mid-nineteenth century and sold by the type foundry Miller & Richard, of Edinburgh in Scotland.
Class: Old style : Garamond Designer: Claude Garamond & Jean Jannon Class: Old style : Gentium Designer: Victor Gaultney Class: Other : Georgia Designer: Matthew Carter Class: Transitional : Goudy Old Style Designer: Frederic Goudy Class: Old style : Granjon Designer: George Wallace Jones Class: Old style : Hoefler Text Designer: Jonathan ...
This category contains typefaces in the old style serif classification, including both Venetian and Garalde varieties. These faces date back to 1465 and are reminiscent of the humanist calligraphy. This is not for any "old" typeface, such as old English or Fraktur. For that, please see Category:Blackletter typefaces.
From the 1860s new types began to appear in a style similar to Caslon's, starting from Miller & Richard's Modernised Old Style of c. 1860. [49] (Bookman Old Style is a descendant of this typeface, but made bolder with a boosted x-height very unlike the original Caslon. [49]) The Caslon foundry covertly replaced some sizes with new, cleaner ...
The "Included from" column indicates the first edition of Windows in which the font was included. ... Bold: Hebrew: XP, Vista: Aldhabi [6 ... Ink Free [6] Display ...
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The following is a list of typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy.. Goudy was one of America's most prolific designers of metal type. He worked under the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement, and many of his designs are old-style serif designs inspired by the relatively organic structure of typefaces created between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, following the lead of earlier ...